In this course, upper-level students in the College of Engineering build their knowledge base of how to be an effective mentor as well as what to look for in a mentoring relationship for themselves. Interactions with peers can be extremely complex and formative for both the mentee and mentor. Training will include a review of the literature, workshops, and discussion. As part of the class, students will lay the foundation for the freshman-mentoring program for the subsequent fall.

This course explores time literacy, a re-imagining of time management that seeks to interweave one?s one needs and ways of thinking together with academic progress over the semester. The course involves identifying an appropriate way to record and structure information about assignments and exams, developing routines that work for you as an individual, and evaluating progress along the way.

Weekly seminar requiring students to read an NLP paper and discuss and review it from a variety of perspectives. Some weeks will feature invited speakers instead of paper reviews.

This course examines the ways that history is communicated outside the classroom through museums, historic sites, monuments, civic celebrations, archives, historic preservation, and community oral history projects. It is a hands-on course, with field trips and group service projects as well as reading and discussion, which makes it a good way to explore your career interests after graduation.

ENGLWRIT 112 (College Writing) is a first-year college-level writing course designed to help students expand their ability to write essays for academic, civic, and personal purposes and to develop their rhetorical awareness to write effectively in new social contexts. Based on the assumption that writing is a social activity, this course requires active engagement in the writing process, including pre-writing, peer review, revision, and editing. Students write five essays. This is the only course at UMass Amherst which satisfies the General Education College Writing (CW) requirement.

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Individualized study with a faculty member. A poster summarizing the project will be presented at the end of the Spring semester on Science Day.

Lab section. This final course in the chemistry core sequence provides a foundation in the principles of physical and inorganic chemistry that are central to the study of all chemical phenomena. Discussions include quantitative treatment of thermochemistry, chemical equilibria, electrochemistry and reaction kinetics. Corequisite: CHM 224. Prerequisites: CHM 111/111L or equivalent. MTH 111 recommended but not required. Enrollment limited to 16.